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red
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of RED
1
a person who rises up against authority <the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government>
Synonyms insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, mutineer, red, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist
Related Words challenger, defier, insubordinate, oppositionist, recusant, refuser, resistant, resister; anarch, anarchist; discontent, extremist, malcontent, radical
Near Antonyms loyalist, patriot, supporter; counterinsurgent, counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist
2
cap an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state <the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin>
Related Words leftist, lefty, pink, pinko, social democrat; Bolshevik, Leninist, Leninite, Maoist, Marxist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite; extremist, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist
Antonyms capitalist
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